Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) was a French philosopher and author of more than thirty works, including the three-volume series La Techinique Et Le Temps. He received his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Stiegler served as an Associate Professor at the University of Compiègne of Technology, Visiting Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, and Distinguished Professor at China Academy of Art and Nanjing University. He also taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Cambridge, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Lüneburg, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Northwestern University in Chicago.

Stiegler held various leadership positions including Director of Projects at the International College of Philosophy, Head of the research group Knowledge, Organization, Technical Systems at the University of Compiègne of Technology, Deputy Director of the National Audiovisual Institute of France, Director of the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, and Head of the Department of Cultural Development at the National Center for Arts and Culture of Pompidou. He founded several organizations, including the Institute for Research and Innovation, Ars Industrialis Association (later reorganized as the “Friends of the Gilbert Simondon Generation” Association), and the online philosophical school Pharmakon.

In January 2015, Lu Xinghua introduced Bernard Stiegler to ICAST and in March, Bernard Stiegler was invited to be a visiting professor at CAA where he established close academic relationships and organized a series of lectures and workshops on “New Media, New Art.” He engaged the Chinese art and thought circles in cutting-edge discussions on technical philosophy and delivered a series of lectures including “Art, Difference, and Repetition in the Anthropocene” (2016), “Entropy and Labor” (2017), “Towards the Neganthropocene: Social Sculpture, Cybernetics, and Smart Cities” (2018), and “Technology and Aesthetics” (2019), all of which were mandatory ICAST courses